The BRICS Unit: The Beginning of the End for Dollar Dominance?
Unf*cking The Republic
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In December of 2025, Brazil passed the BRICS leadership torch to India, which wasted no time revealing its priorities for the economic alliance—to build an international payment system that rivals the SWIFT system and chip away at U.S. economy hegemony by attacking the exorbitant privilege of the U.S. Dollar. Defending the dollar should be the easiest policy ever. Instead the Trump administration has accelerated the world’s collective desire to put the U.S. in its place and end our reign of economic despotism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the story of a political pundit who looked at the world around him and just said, fuck it. |
| 0:07.7 | Gives the middle finger to authority and says, kiss my ass. |
| 0:11.6 | But instead of a revolution, he started a podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | Just what the world needs. |
| 0:17.6 | Started a podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | Another basic white guy who started a podcast. Another basic white guy. |
| 0:21.3 | Who started a podcast? |
| 0:23.0 | But it's fun because he curses. |
| 0:25.2 | All through the podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | On the fucking the republic. |
| 0:28.7 | We're his motherfucking podcast. |
| 0:34.1 | Peace and love, y'all. |
| 0:35.1 | It's me, Manny Faces, with a little heads up that we're catching up on podcast audio from longer pieces that Max has out there on YouTube. |
| 0:42.5 | It's taking us a bit in the new year here to find our groove and put our poop in the group or whatever. |
| 0:47.1 | But we should be caught up pretty soon. |
| 0:49.0 | So we have a bunch of audio coming your way over the next week to 10 days on de-dollarization, the invasion of Venezuela, |
| 0:55.4 | and a think piece on Trump and why the stock market keeps going up. Anyway, the catch-up begins now, |
| 1:00.5 | but we wanted to make sure you had these drops here on the audio feed. So thanks for your patience, |
| 1:04.8 | and as always, thank you to our members for supporting the work that we do. Now, let's get into it. |
| 1:11.3 | While the U.S. was sleeping and its citizens were gawking at their phones, enthralled by the latest |
| 1:17.0 | conspiracy, outrageous social post by the angry pumpkin, or genuine terror stemming from any |
| 1:23.3 | number of hostile policies that we now live under, the world was busy. It was busy not just |
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